Thursday, March 1, 2012

More paradox, sex and politics and witches, but no rock and roll or drugs

Examination of a Witch, in Salem, Massachusetts, 1692

Your modern Republican Party has decided that a one percent increase in taxes for multi-millionaires is an impeachment-worthy high crime, but the state-mandated insertion of an electronic device into the vaginas of women who are ostensibly struggling with the most difficult moments of their adult lives is a perfectly acceptable exercising of government power. -- Bob CescaWhat does it say about the college coed Susan [sic] Fluke, who goes before a congressional committee and essentially says that she must be paid to have sex? What does that make her? It makes her a slut, right? It makes her a prostitute. She wants to be paid to have sex. She's having so much sex she can't afford the contraception. She wants you and me and the taxpayers to pay her to have sex. What does that make us? We're the pimps.-- Rush Limbaugh to his 15 million strong radio audience

I cannot understand what it is that makes Rush think he has the right to say such horrid, judgmental things about any human being. If I were his mother, I would be ashamed to admit it and I would grab him by the ear and drag his ass back home to start fresh and teach him how to be a human being.

I love poetry and discourse and gallows humor. I like to say that reading voraciously has been the only constant in my life. I am a fierce advocate for my daughter who has a severe seizure disorder of unknown origin, as well as for all special needs children. This is a place where poetry, politics, parenting, and disability intersect. Every now and then I curse and might offend you with my leftist politics. No apologies. Stop reading.
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